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Iceberg Slim: The Best-Selling Pimp Remembered By His Widow

James Maycock, Pride, June 2001

"YOU SEE, pimping's big business," growled an experienced pimp to Goldie, his aspiring protégé in the classic 1970's film, The Mack. Concluding his informal lecture, the worldly pimp predicted forcefully: "...It's been going on since the beginning of time and it's going to continue straight ahead until someone up there turns out the lights on this small planet!"

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